U+0562 Armenian Small Letter Ben
U+0562 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Armenian script. Its uppercase variant is
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0562 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ben (majuscule: Բ, minuscule: բ; Armenian: բեն) is a letter of the Armenian alphabet, used in the Armenian language.
It was one of the original letters in the Armenian alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD.
It is speculated to be derived from the Greek letter Beta with the rightmost curves cut off somewhat. Along with the letter Ayb, it forms the word "այբուբեն" (alphabet).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1378 |
UTF-8 | D5 A2 |
UTF-16 | 05 62 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 05 62 |
URL-Quoted | %D5%A2 |
HTML hex reference | բ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Õ¢ |
Adobe Glyph List | benarmenian |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER BEN | |
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Armenian | |
Lowercase Letter | |
Armenian | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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Lower | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |